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Box B: 2

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Telegram from Milrob, Princeton, N.J. to Mrs. and Mrs. Max Farrand, 1650 Orlando Rd., San Marino, Calif, February 22, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.02.22
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Telegram from Mildred and Robert Bliss (Milrob) to Max and Beatrix Farrand (MaxTrix) sending regret for the personal loss of their friend, George [Ellery] Hale. Mildred and Robert Bliss asks that flowers be sent and to include a spray of forget-me-knots in the arrangement. They let Max and Beatrix Farrand know the wire sent was received.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.14
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss (Mildred Bliss) expresses her thoughts on the death of William Gray and the loss to Dumbarton Oaks and his family. Beatrix reports that Ellis Russell has written that James Bryce has been given William Gray's head [gardener] position at Dumbarton. She discusses Mrs. Mudski (Mary Cadwalader Jones) her mother and lantern slides that Robert and Mildred enjoyed, and Elisina Tyler inheriting Sainte Claire [du Chateau] as...

Letter from Mildred Bliss, 104 E. 68th Street, New York to Trix, March 16, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.03.16
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Trix (Beatrix Farrand) telling her she read the Casa Dorinda notes on the train to New York and thought it was an excellent report.She informs Beatrix Farrand that plans are being made for the room southwest of the Dumbarton Oaks Music Room and Kenneth Conant of Harvard University has visited Dumbarton Oaks twice each for three days working the dummy, plans, and details of the new room. James Bryce has moved the...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., March 18, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.18
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter sent by Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss [Mildred Bliss] with an enclosed photograph of the sequoia tree plaque which Johnny? has just sent in. She thinks the plaque and its setting will please Mildred. Photograph not with copy of letter.Beatrix asks if Mildred could let her know if the early days of April are as inconvenient as she thinks they are likely to be for a visit to Dumbarton Oaks.She reports that the sun has now come out...

Letter from Mildred Bliss, 103 East 68th Street, New York to Mrs. Max Farrand, 1650 Orlando Drive, San Marino, Calif., March 22, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.03.22
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand. Handwritten notes in ink added to letter. Mildred Bliss addresses the style of the Forsythia arch and the stone curbing for the parking spaces at Dumbarton Oaks. She tells Beatrix Farrand she will mail her the plans for the new room [the new museum?]. She reports Sir Arthur Salter is coming for three days, and she and Robert will be ready for Beatrix Farrand's visit to Dumbarton Oaks beginning April 6....

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, March 28, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.28
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss. Beatrix Farrand reports the Palomar Observatory wants help in planting the surrounding great dome of the 200 ft. Hale telescope. She comments "how closely our minds jump in parallel lines." She says it is exciting about Dumbarton's future with the sculpture gallery being built, Christian and Byzantine census, and the interest expressed by Princeton and Harvard Universities.Beatrix Farand thinks the memorial...

Letter from Alfred Rehder, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plains, Mass. to Beatrix Farrand, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AR 1938.04.11
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Typescipt letter with signature from Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium at the Arnold Arboretum to Beatrix Farrand suggests if she wishes to have pictures of American trees then there are plates in Sargent's Silva with selected copies offered by the Arnold Arboretum. These could be colored. He suggests she visit to see what pictures the Arnold Arboretum has that she could use.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 12, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1938.04.12
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand discusses a "skeleton" list of material to be displayed for April in the Catalogue House. The list is titled, "April Set-up For Dumbarton Oaks Catalog House" and includes birds, flowers, shrubs, and trees.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, April 14, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, BF 1938.04.14
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney offers suggestions for print displays of birds, flowers, shrubs, and trees and corrections of Anne Sweeneys list for the panels and whirligig in the Catalogue House of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. Probably signed by Beatrix Farrand's secretary on behalf of Beatrix Farrand.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 23, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 13Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1938.04.23
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Copy of typescript letter probably written by Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand discusses receiving Farrand's suggestions for the panels in the Catalogue House. Sweeney mentions she has not heard back from Alfred Rehder, [Arnold Arboretum] or the New York Botanical Garden about garden pictures. Anne Sweeney found out from Mr. Morrison that she has been elected secretary of the Horticultural Society. She is not sure how that happened.

Memorandum for Mrs. Bliss by Anne Sweeney, April 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 14Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1938.04.xx
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Copy of typescript memorandum for Mildred Bliss written by Anne Sweeney asks her if the pictures taken by Bruce Fessenden can be used for the panels in the Catalogue House and offers a way for them to be mounted.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, 3245 S Street, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.04.27
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney tells her Alfred Rehder from the Arnold Arboretum responded to her about the available pictures available. She says the Mildred Bliss volunteered Anne Sweeney's services to the Horticultural Society as a step to working at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Beatrix Farrand will work out what is expected of Anne when she is next in Washington, D.C.Farrand tells Sweeney the material she has for the...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 16Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.04.28
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss tells her $10.30 is being transfered to her for the [George Ellery] Hale funeral flowers. She will be sending lantern slides to Dumbarton Oaks. Farrand looks forward to her visit at Dumbarton Oaks and hopes to make the party on Sunday the 8th. Work has been heavy for her at Princeton and Yale Universities.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 17Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.04.29
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss passes on a report from Philip Lucking that the Casa Dorinda garden tour on the 19th was a great success, weeds in the old rose garden are disappearing, and the change in the driveway looks "grand." She sends three pictures of the blue echium at the entrance to Casa Dorinda. She asks Mildred's thoughts on the memorial for [William] Gray.

Telegram from MilRob, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Max Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 3, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 18Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.05.03
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Postal Telegraph telegram from Mildred and Robert Bliss (MilRob) to Beatrix Farrand expresses her hope that Farrand can attend her party on Sunday from 5-7:30pm. She reports the Wistaria is "never so beautiful" and the "garden clamouring" for Farrand.

Telegram from Mildred Bliss, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Max Farrand, c/o Mrs. Bayard Henry, West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 19Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.05.09
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Postal Telegraph telegram from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand in care of Mrs. Bayard Henry (Jane Irwin Robeson Henry) expresses her apologies for having Beatrix Farrand welcome Mildred Bliss and others on Wednesday instead of them welcoming her on Monday. She reports Nadia Boulanger is leaving on the night train.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, May 24, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 20Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1938.05.24
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand reports changes to the pictures displayed in the Dumbarton Oaks Catalogue House for which she added more rose pictures. She is planning to be away from Dumbaton Oaks to visit her sister who is ill. Sweeney reports Mr. Morrison's father passed away. Wayside Nurseries sent her nice catalogs, but she has not heard from Alfred Rehder, Arnold Arboretum or Hosea Waterer.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, May 26, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 22Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.05.26
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss offers her thoughts on Orion and Bootes chairs, the wall for Lilac Circle, the placement of the Unicorn Lady, adding Dumbarton Oaks and Dumbarton Oaks Park insciptions on the Forsythia arch with an iron gate, cost of designing and having Ruth Havey do some of the design work, new position for the old Forsythia seat, the Star Garden lantern with the Gemini and Corona constellations in the panel, swinging seat for the Terrior...

Letter from Helen Reid, 15 East 84th Street, New York City to Mildred Bliss and response, May 26, 1938 to June 2, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 23Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:HR 1938.05.26
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letters from Helen Reid to Mildred Bliss and Mildred Bliss to Helen Reid (Mrs. Ogden Reid). Reid asks Mildred Bliss if she was interested in Nerines from Harry du Pont's collection as the greenhouses are closing down. She also inquires if Mildred Bliss would know of anyone who would like a good gardener. She loved the picture postcard and view of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden which made her more sad that she missed Mildred Bliss' party.Mildred Bliss responds that...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, May 31, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 24Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.05.31
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss tells her that the two [Odilon] Redon pictures which belonged to Edith Wharton will remain with her for her lifetime, then the smaller oil painting will go to Dumbarton Oaks if it wishes to have it. She has made a memorandum for her executors indicating her desire.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, Dumbarton Oaks, 3245 S Street, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 25Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.05.31B
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney tells her approves of the changes in the pictures in the Dumbarotn Oaks Catalogue House, and wishes she could have seen the roses displayed there. Sweeney can reach Farrand in California by addressing the letter to Max Farrand with Beatrix Farrand's initials in the corner. Sweeney should have heard from Alfred Rehder from the Arnold Arboretum. Hosea Waterer will probably answer once his new catalog comes...

Notes by Mildred Bliss of thoughts and ideas for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, May 25, 1935 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 21Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.05.xx
Scope and Contents: Handwritten notes of thoughts and ideas Mildred Bliss has for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. Specifically she mentions the a sundial, a dipping well, and a weather vane, Orion and Bootes chairs for the Star Garden, wall and seat for the Lilac Circle, unicorn lady for Dumbarton Oak Park area, Forsythia bench and seats in the Forsythia Dell, lantern in the Star Garden, the swinging seat in the Terrior Column and Enclosure, the Finalities frieze in the Rose Garden, lead soldiers and terra cotta...

Telegram from MilRob, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Max Farrand, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California, June 9, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 27Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.06.09
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Postal Telegraph telegram from Mildred and Robert Bliss to Beatrix Farrand expresses her disappointment that she missed connecting with Farrand by telephone. She had hoped to persuade her to travel westward via Dumbarton Oaks. She is overjoyed Max and Beatrix Farrand will be joining them in care of Dewey Riddle, Sunlight Valley, Cody, Wyoming. The Blisses dates are August 10-30, 1938. Royall Tyler is with them and will sail on the twenty-third.

Letter from Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Trix, June 13, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 28Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.06.13
Scope and Contents: Dictated typescript letter with handwritten signature and postscript from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand. Mildred Bliss was hoping that Beatrix Farrand would stop in Washington, D.C. on her way to Calfornia as she had much to talk over with her. She thanks her for the recent letter and photographs. She reports the Garden Club met at Dumbarton Oaks and Anne Sweeney gave a talk about the Catalogue House. Royall Tyler leaves for New York and Robert Bliss is going to hear him speak at the...

Memorandum to Mrs. Farrand, June 15, 1938 Digital

File — Box: B: 2, Folder: 29Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.06.15
Scope and Contents: Typescript memorandum created by Mildred Bliss and sent to Beatrix Farrand based on Beatrix Farrand response letter of June 18, 1938. Mildred Bliss listed the progress for projects Dumbarton Oaks Garden for [William Gray's] memorial tablet, the finalities, metal frames in the Catalogue House, a full size detail of the garage lantern, the bases for the terracotta urns, the prospective trellis, stepping stones for the Lilac Circle, finials on the south wall and polychroming of the floors of...